Flemish Castle
Chaumont – lock with a difficult fate, whose name comes from the phrase 'hot mountain'. At that place where now stands the castle during the Middle Ages was a wooden fortress, which Pierre d'Ambuaz destroyed, and began build a castle made of stone. Chaumont was built on the banks of the Loire by three generations of a family of Amboise and perfectly preserved to this day. Castle repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt. In 1550 Chaumont Catherine deread more…